diff --git a/auctioning_platform/Cargo.lock b/auctioning_platform/Cargo.lock
index 34ede63..4458f89 100644
--- a/auctioning_platform/Cargo.lock
+++ b/auctioning_platform/Cargo.lock
@@ -245,9 +245,9 @@ checksum = "fd16c4719339c4530435d38e511904438d07cce7950afa3718a84ac36c10e89e"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "chrono"
-version = "0.4.37"
+version = "0.4.38"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8a0d04d43504c61aa6c7531f1871dd0d418d91130162063b789da00fd7057a5e"
+checksum = "a21f936df1771bf62b77f047b726c4625ff2e8aa607c01ec06e5a05bd8463401"
 dependencies = [
  "android-tzdata",
  "iana-time-zone",
diff --git a/auctioning_platform/Cargo.toml b/auctioning_platform/Cargo.toml
index 30b6905..a6cb021 100644
--- a/auctioning_platform/Cargo.toml
+++ b/auctioning_platform/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ foundation = { version = "0.1.0", path = "./foundation" }
 
 # external crates
 axum = { version = "0.7", default-features = false, features = ["tokio"] }
-chrono = "0.4.37"
+chrono = "0.4.38"
 reqwest = { version = "0.12.3", default-features = false }
 rstest = "0.19.0"
 rust_decimal = "1.35.0"